Emergent Effects
Emergent Effects posts at @emergenteffects
Why the Boriswave is not an economic boon
A case for optimism depends on flawed data and muddled thinking
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
